most linux friendly motherboard chipset

most linux friendly motherboard chipset

[Alex Davis]

I'm preparing to build a brand new 64-bit machine, I am currently leaning toward AMD 64x2.
I've read that NVidia, along with (silent) data corruption issues, can be a bit of a pain
to get working under Linux. Anyone have any experience with ULi, ATI, or SiS?

Note: I'm not entirely ruling out Intel.



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Re: most linux friendly motherboard chipset

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:32:23PM -0700, Alex Davis wrote:
> I'm preparing to build a brand new 64-bit machine, I am currently leaning toward AMD 64x2.
> I've read that NVidia, along with (silent) data corruption issues, can be a bit of a pain
> to get working under Linux. Anyone have any experience with ULi, ATI, or SiS?
> 
> Note: I'm not entirely ruling out Intel.

If you don't want builtin graphics and prefer AMD Nvidia seems to be a fair
choice.

If you however want builtin-in graphics there absolutely no way around
intel.  In fact if you want to do anything graphics-related with Linux
and intel graphics (which only comes built-in) is the only sane choice.

Re: most linux friendly motherboard chipset

[Bill Davidsen]

Alex Davis wrote:
> I'm preparing to build a brand new 64-bit machine, I am currently leaning toward AMD 64x2.
> I've read that NVidia, along with (silent) data corruption issues, can be a bit of a pain
> to get working under Linux. Anyone have any experience with ULi, ATI, or SiS?
> 
> Note: I'm not entirely ruling out Intel.

I have had good luck with ASUS boards, the Intel chipset, and either the 
provided graphics or ATI (I don't like the binary nVidia drivers). I am 
just ordering one this weekend, and I'm going with the cheap PentiumD 
930 CPU because the quad core units will be out in the spring, and I can 
go with that without tying up money in a fast CPU now.

The Core2Duo is faster than AMD (today), has the hardware VM support, 
has 64 bit. And most of my clients are running Intel, which is some 
consideration regarding support expertise.

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